About
Product design at Notion. Originally from northern Wisconsin, now living in California. I make art, bike, and play games in my free time.
Work Experience
I recently joined Notion as a product designer. I'll be focusing on growth and design systems.
In 2023, I rejoined for Asana as the designer for the navigation team. I focused on delivering a roadmap for the navigation team that balanced big ARR goals with simplicity and clarity. I also lead the design for our AI demos at the Work Innovation Summit (A sales-focused Asana event), as well as provided IC leadership for the Growth Pillar.
I lead the design system efforts at Handshake. While there, we designed and began implementing a new design system.
I joined Asana in 2015 as the 5th product designer, and was involved in developing our visual design language, mobile apps, core features, and the design system during my time there.
At Shoutlet (now Khoros), I was the second design hire at the company and only product designer. The company grew to 300 employees and was acquired in 2015 by a competitor.
At Lemans, I designed websites and marketing materials for 12 in-house brands and products.
At UW-Rock County, I designed all print publications for a small (900 student) associate degree college in Wisconsin. This included campus kiosks, restaurant signage, theater posters, and class timetables.
Projects
To build excitement for new AI functionality that was coming online at Asana in the fall of 2023, the company hosted an event called Work Innovation Summit. I was chosen to design and animate demos for the event. I collaborated with product, design, and company leadership to create a cohesive narrative and prototype.
In 2022, I designed a visual refresh of Asana's web app. I partnered with the Head of Design and area leads to imagine a bold vision for the product.
In 2021, I designed dark mode for Asana, incorporating design tokens. This allowed us to finely tune the visual design for dark mode while stress testing and guaranteeing adoption of tokens, which were new to Asana at the time.
In 2019, as part of the Core Experience team, I redesigned Asana's core view: the task list. It was designed to incorporate the best parts of a spreadsheet while maintaining the ease-of-use of a task list.
I redesigned this core view in 2019. The goals were to improve hierarchy, unify interactions, and implement interchangeable modules. These changes allowed the task details to better pair with the task list redesign, as well as improved usability over the previous version.
In 2018, we realized that the previous landing page for users, "My Tasks," was confusing for many people who expected to see projects when they logged in. We iterated quickly to bring projects to the home page of Asana, introducing tiles and 'hub pages' into the app as wayfinding bookends.
My first project at Asana was a visual overhaul of both mobile apps, in time for a company wide rebrand which was launched in September of that year. I developed the design of the mobile apps while also helping drive the visual design of brand and web product.
Awards
Asana was chosen by Google as the recipient of the 2016 'Brand Infusion' award. We were selected for bold color choices and a unique spin on core Material Design patterns, such as floating action buttons and swipe gestures. As the designer of the app, I attended Google's design conference (along with PM Sarah Chandler) to receive the award.